Master from 1445

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A late Gothic painter from the Upper Rhine who is not known by name is referred to as the master of 1445 . The artist, who probably worked in Basel or Konstanz in the middle of the 15th century , received his emergency name after the year 1445 on a painting he created. The panel depicts the legend of Saint Anthony's visit and feeding to the hermit Paul in the wilderness. It was formerly in the collection of Prince von Fürstenberg in Donaueschingen , and since 1933 in the Basel Art Museum .

The master from 1445 is considered a close successor to Konrad Witz . Like him, he was influenced by painting from the Northern Italian Renaissance and by painters from Flanders . He seems to be continuing a style that began with wit and also points to roots in Burgundian-French painting.

Constance Minster, tomb of Bishop Otto von Hachberg

The master of 1445 is also attributed the picturesque addition to the grave niche of Bishop Otto von Hachberg in the Margaret Chapel of the Konstanz Minster , a Madonna with angels, also executed in 1445. With its three-dimensional sequence, it is one of the earliest works of spatial illusionism in German art.

The work of the master from 1445 is sometimes referred to in art historical literature as the Basel Master from 1445 .

literature

  • Hermann Voss : The origin of the Danube style. A piece of the development history of German painting (= Art History Monographs. Vol. 7, ZDB -ID 516633-0 ). Hiersemann, Leipzig 1907, p. 55.
  • Otto Fischer : The master of 1445. In: Pantheon. Vol. 13, 1934, ISSN  0031-0999 , pp. 40-47.
  • Lilli Fischel : Work and name of the "Master of 1445". In: Journal for Art History. Vol. 13, No. 1, 1950, ISSN  0044-2992 , pp. 105-124.
  • Alfred Stange : German Gothic painting. Volume 4: Southwest Germany in the period from 1400 to 1450. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 1951, pp. 40–43.
  • Werner Fleischhauer : On the origin of the Basler Eremitenbildes from 1445. In: Yearbook of the state art collections in Baden-Württemberg. Vol. 25, 1988, ISSN  0067-284X , pp. 48-53.
  • Bodo Brinkmann, Katharina Georgi (Red.): Konrad Witz. On the occasion of the exhibition “Konrad Witz”, Kunstmuseum Basel, March 6 - July 3, 2011. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2760-0 , pp. 255–274.
  • Bernd Konrad: Realistic innovations in painting from the circle of Konrad Witz - The Master of 1445 . In: Ulrike Laule (Hrsg.): The Constance Minster of Our Lady. 1000 years of the cathedral - 200 years of the parish church . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2751-1 , pp. 150–153.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sold by the Berlin art dealer Karl Haberstock , s. Hundreds of pictures from the Haberstock Gallery in Berlin. With a foreword by Magdalene Haberstock. Münchner Buchgewerbehaus, Munich 1967, plate 2.
personal data
SURNAME Master from 1445
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Basel master from 1445
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Upper Rhine painter of the late Gothic period
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century